At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how
individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.
Not exact matches
If he talks about the event character (1 / 10th of a second in length and all that) of the
self, it is because he thinks that is what analysis of
self - consciousness itself discloses and not because he means to construct the
self out of subhuman
individuals or
organisms (Shalom's «event - cells»).
It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine
self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of
individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a
self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).
Self - assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular
organisms to complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of limited and unreliable
individuals.